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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/les-ambassadeurs-des-chiens-et-jupiter.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 19</span><span class="fp-text">LE SERPENT À LA MISÉRICORDE DANGEREUSE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XIX</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">SERPENS, MISERICORDIA NOCIVA</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Qui secourt les méchants s'en repent toujours.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Qui fert malis auxilium post <span class="fp-correction" title="tepus  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">tempus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="tempus  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">tepus</span></span> dolet.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un Homme, ramassa un serpent raide de froid,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et le réchauffa dans son sein. Sa pitié lui coûta cher ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car, dès qu'il fut ranimée, il le tua tout d'abord.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un autre lui demandait la cause de ce crime&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;C'est pour que l'on apprenne, répondit-il, à ne point obliger les méchants.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Gelu rigentem quidam <span class="fp-correction" title="colubram  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">serpentem</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="serpentem  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">colubram</span></span> sustulit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sinuque fovit, contra se ipse misericors ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">namque ut refecta est <span class="fp-correction" title="nocuit  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">necuit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="necuit  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">nocuit</span></span> hominem protinus.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hanc alia cum rogaret causam facinoris,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">respondit&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Ne quis discat prodesse improbis.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Villageois_et_le_Serpent">Le Villageois et le Serpent</a></div>
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